The Destiny Project Episode #28 The Sweet Singer of Israel

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The opening of this shiur, in Rabbi Yaakov Yosef Reinman’s own words — taken from the captions, so names and Hebrew terms may be approximate.

Welcome to Episode 28 of the Goldenberg Destiny Project. So the last few episodes we've been talking a lot about the idea of a Jewish king and about what was going on during the Period of the Judges and how Saul fit into the picture and how eventually David would fit into the picture. We were talking about that. And I tried to make myself pretty clear, but I got an email from one of my correspondents, name is Moshe Cohen. I just want to read you the email. If I understand correctly you suggest that a king in the Torah scheme is a leader and teacher, not a monarch, and this takes away problems associated with monarchy. How does this square with the powers granted to a king to levy taxes and so on, and the fact that the king bequeaths his kingship to his son? Doesn't this specifically open the door to the abuses of monarchy? How can it be guaranteed that the king stays within his mandate of leading and inspiring the nation if he is given powers of absolute dominion? Excellent questions. I have a good friend, Reb Gershon Ribner, he is a big Torah scholar, and he has a very popular podcast, and people send in questions and he responds to them. So he called me up a while ago, and he said he's dealing with the question of why

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1. 0:17Welcome to Episode 28 of the Goldenberg Destiny Project. So the last few episodes we've been…
2. 4:08the organizing principle of this community. I mean besides the Hasidic part you have to keep…
3. 7:06manages it, nobody. They all manage themselves. You want to have a Chesed organization, so some…
4. 10:18the schools are doing, and I mean he might come sometimes as a visit to inspire…
5. 12:57that Torah is from Heaven and it's obligatory, and the centrality of the Jewish people. If…
6. 16:27on in the Period of Judges, and then a Judge used to come along and he…
7. 19:09the ideology of basic Judaism. Okay. Maybe some people have different opinions, different flavors, but all…
8. 22:00with the Philistines, and what they used to do sometimes in those days, they used to…
9. 25:33And they gave him a city, Ziklag, you could be there, he had like six hundred…
10. 28:20been. David, as I was saying before, was also the ideal of a Jewish king. The…

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